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so this was a new one for me today. i was using a equalette for a top rope anchor today. the bolts are on the edge of a cliff with lots of decomposed granite at the top so it's difficult to get a good look over after the rope pulls it tight. my partner climbed up most of the route and got to where the wall was blank and she couldn't get any higher. she said she thought lockers looked funny and was a bit worried. i lowered her and repeated the climb. i knew if she couldn't get up it i probably wouldn't either but i would just move over to the easier terrain on the right to check out the anchor. on the easier terrain i was cruising and not paying too much attention and i lost a foot on the polished rock and fell about 6'. no biggie so i climbed back up and as i approached the anchor the lockers looked ok but the equalette did not. i gingerly finished the route and got off belay. this was the equalette

whoops!

Credit: i'm gumby dammit

the only thing i can think of is somehow the rope got on top of, or pinched around the cordalette and lowering ashley melted it. and then when i fell it somehow fixed the positioning of the lockers so they looked normal when i got to the top (i did notice before i moved over that they were in a weird position). any ideas what happened

Hey Gumby,
How do you rappel? I suggest that you rappel with your belay device extended about 16". ( I like to use a shoulder length sling girth hitched through my tie in. That is followed by an auto block (prussic) to your tie in or belay loop.
This way both hands are on the brake/control side of the rope. Both hands are available for the work at hand ( rope tending, swings, etc.)Your prussic is easy to mind and is a load bearing rig.
This is common in Europe and for guiding. As a leader it also allows you to pre-rig the follower's rappel before descending from the anchor. The sling also works as a quick tie in at anchors.

Opposite of most people but I'm going to try it next time myself as it looks like a great safe system. Mebbe with a kleimheist instead of a prussik. I'll try a few types of autolock knots and see what works for me.

Even us old timers learn new things and the more tools you have in the bag the better.

Regarding your post 3 above gumby..yeah..stuff like that really makes you careful. Climbing IS dangerous because no on can foresee every possible failure of a system everytime. You will be more careful about sharp edges and ropes running over each other from now on I'll bet.

Here's the only way I could get the rope to run against the equalette. 9/10 times, the biners simply righted themselves and all was good. It stuck this way just once. Your picture looks as though the rope ran over both strands of the cord though, which would imply that it got over the top somehow. Said it was hard to see the master point after the rope pulled it tight, so you didn't rap off after setting the anchor right? Just built it, tossed it off, and walked down?

Well shoot dude, glad it didn't burn clear through on ya. I saw the second strand burn too; but couldn't get my cord to reproduce contact with both strands unless I ran the rope entirely over the cord. Coulda been worse.